TAVASTIA — Christophe Bourguedieu

Seen from the outside, everything in Finland seems undecidable, as if the in-between made the particularity of the place: between two continents, between two eras, between two atmospheres. To go fast, static and lively. The constrained links with the former USSR and the fantasy of an America of cars and surf music partly explain this feeling. Unless the unexpected pushes precisely for an explanation. This territory could be the ideal form of a distant Europe, a barely fictional setting where imagination works from the concrete. Through a curious game of mirrors, one ends up finding one's way there. Tavastia is the ancient name of a region of Finland that today does not appear on any map.